Roland EM-55 - Manual (Page 5)

EM-55 OR Owner’s Manual
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A POWER ON button
Press this button to switch the EM-55 OR on
and off.
B BENDER/MODULATION lever
By performing left/right movements, you can
bend your solo notes down (left) or up (right).
Press this lever towards the rear of the instru-
ment to add modulation (usually vibrato) to
the notes you are playing.
C SCALE MEMORY buttons
These three buttons allow you to save and
recall the tuning settings carried out with the
ORIENTAL SCALE buttons. When the EM-55 OR
is shipped, these memories already contain
useful settings (that will be recalled whenever
you initialize your EM-55 OR).
D ORIENTAL SCALE buttons
These buttons allow you to change the tuning
of each note of the scale. By default, pressing
one of these buttons will lower the corre-
sponding notes in all octaves by a quarter tone
(–50 cents). Other tunings can also be selected
and saved to one of the three scale memories
(see above).
E D Beam Controller
This controller allows you to influence the tim-
bre of the notes you play, to control the
Arranger, and to create some unique effects.
All you need to do is move your hand up/down
or left/right above the two “eyes”.
The buttons allow you to assign the desired
function to the D Beam Controller. See p. 36.
F VOLUME knob
Use this knob to set the global volume of your
EM-55 OR.
G DEMO button
Press this button whenever you want to listen
to the EM-55 OR’s demo songs (see p. 8).
H BALANCE [ √ACCOMP] [KEYBOARD ®]
buttons
Use the BALANCE buttons to change the vol-
ume of the corresponding section (accompani-
ment/song, or the parts you play on the key-
board).
I STYLE MORPHING buttons
Use these three buttons to create a new Style
from two existing ones. See page 27 for
details.
J ORCHESTRATOR buttons
Press one of these buttons to choose the
desired orchestration for the selected Music
Style. See page 27.
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